Wow, do you believe this?????
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol ... 534542.ece
That's a lot of money!
Thoul wrote:They're never going to get the money and they know that. The whole goal of suing people wasn't to get money, it was to set legal precedent and say to everyone: if you share music, we can ruin your life. It's just a bullying tactic. It has also largely failed to actually stop music sharing; that's why the lawsuits are being abandoned in favor of pressuring the ISP.
Srijita wrote:
The Canadians have shown the most sense here. In 2004, Canadian judge Konrad von Finckenstein refused the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA) a court order to force five Canadian ISPs to reveal the names, phone numbers and addresses of 29 file-sharers the CRIA believed were infringing copyright.
In his ruling, Justice von Finckenstein compared the actions of the file sharers to the presence of a photocopy machine in a library. "I cannot see a real difference between a library that places a photocopy machine in a room full of copyrighted material and a computer user that places a personal copy on a shared directory linked to a P2P service," he stated.
XxEnslavedNekoxX wrote:That's a load of bull. These people don't realize that if people actually like the songs of the artists, most will buy the cd or at the very least, still pay to go to concerts. If I were an artist, I would be happy that people were sharing my music with others.
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